GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
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| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |